Taiwan Leader’s Legacy and Hong Kong

Lee Teng-hui fostered democracy that Hong Kong yearns for

Jul 31, 2020

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It was a poignant comment on Chinese history: former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, who has died at 97, succumbed on the same day as in Hong Kong 12 pro-democracy candidates were barred from running in legislative elections due in September.

Those elections may not happen anyway as the Hong Kong government, knowing just how unpopular it is, is consideri…

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